[OU] Attachments in email not showing

[Malcolm Austen]

On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 22:21:07 +0100, Ledgem <amd.ledgem at gmail.com> wrote:

> A person will send me an email with an attachment, but Opera does not  
> let me see the attachment in any form - not embedded in the message, no  
> "save attachment" button, and in the main mail view I don't see the  
> attachment icon. The message includes the size of the file (and takes up  
> the proper download time), so it isn't a matter of the attachment being  
> dropped or the person forgetting to add it. If I opt to view all headers  
> I can see a huge wall of gibberish text, which I presume is the  
> attachment.

There is a long-standing report on attachments from AppleMail which puts  
out bad MIME structured messages. In putting out multipart/alternative  
AppleMail wrongly places the attachment on one of the alternatives rather  
than on the mesage as a whole. I don't think there is (yet?) any version  
of Opera that can cope with this broken MIME structure.

= Malcolm.

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